How Glory Goes

Infobox Album |
Name = How Glory Goes
Type = Album
Artist = Audra McDonald


Released = flagicon|United States February 29 2000 flagicon|United Kingdom May 15 2000
Genre = Show tunes
Label = Nonesuch
Last album = Way Back to Paradise (1998)
This album = How Glory Goes (2000)
Next album = Happy Songs (2002)

"How Glory Goes" is the second album from Audra McDonald, released in 2000. Unlike her debut album "Way Back to Paradise", which featured songs from younger composers, this album contains a mixture of new and old songs, mostly from musical theatre. Five of the songs were written by Harold Arlen, and two by Adam Guettel, including the title track.

Track listing

#"Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home" (Arlen/Mercer, from "St. Louis Woman" 1946)
#"Bill" (Kern/Wodehouse/Hammerstein, from "Show Boat" 1927)
#"I Had Myself a True Love" (Arlen/Mercer, from "St. Louis Woman" 1946)
#"I Hid My Love" (Marzullo/Clare, music written in 1998)
#"Was That You?" (Guettel/Robbins, written in 1992)
#"I Won't Mind" (Blumenkrantz/Kessler/Saines, written for "The Other Franklin" in 1998)
#"A Sleepin' Bee" (Arlen/Capote, from "House of Flowers" 1954)
#"Come Down from the Tree" (Flaherty/Ahrens, written for "Once on This Island" 1990)
#"I Never Has Seen Snow" (Arlen/Capote, from "House of Flowers" 1954)
#"When Did I Fall In Love?" (Bock/Harnick, from "Fiorello!" 1959)
#"The Man That Got Away" (Arlen/Gershwin, from "A Star Is Born" 1954)
#"Somewhere" (Bernstein/Sondheim, from "West Side Story" 1957)
#"How Glory Goes" (Guettel, from "Floyd Collins" 1996)
#"Lay Down Your Head" (Tesori/Crawley, from "Violet" 1997)